Remember slot cars? In the dark ages before simulators, video games, and even personal computers, there was hardly a boy in America who didn't race slot cars. Set up on the living room floor, a dining ...

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...

The Slot Car Track in Kannapolis lets racers experience the fun of controlling a race car. Drivers start your engines. From the big races at Charlotte Motor Speedway to the small dirt tracks, racing ...

Yeah, at the corner of East Bundy in Southeast Second in Des Moines. This is so cool right up the driveway from the mailboxes three in *** row directly behind the yawning dog. It's just loads and ...

“If it’s not fun, it’s just not working,” says Ron Scott, the owner of Cactus RC & Hobbies, explaining the point of the remote control and slot car races that take place at his shop every weekend.

This video is no longer available. Long before the popularity of car racing video games, the slot car craze in the 1960s and ’70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models.